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50-520: Ikegami can refer to: Companies [ edit ] Ikegami Tsushinki , manufacturer of broadcast television equipment People [ edit ] Akira Ikegami Haruki Ikegami, victim of the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434 Hidetsugu Ikegami Kimiko Ikegami Ryoichi Ikegami Places [ edit ] Ikegami Honmon-ji Ikegami Station Train lines [ edit ] Tōkyū Ikegami Line Topics referred to by

100-524: A brand of Toshiba. In March 2014, Toshiba sued SK Hynix , accusing the company of stealing technology of its NAND flash memory. In the late same year, the two companies settled with a deal in which SK Hynix pays US$ 278 million to Toshiba. Toshiba had sued Hynix in the early 2000s for patent infringement . In October 2014, Toshiba and United Technologies agreed a deal to expand their joint venture outside Japan . Toshiba first announced in May 2015 that it

150-1064: A contract with Orion Electric , one of the world's largest OEM consumer video electronic makers and suppliers, to manufacture and supply finished consumer TV and video products for Toshiba to meet the increasing demand for the North American market. The contract ended in 2008, ending seven years of OEM production with Orion. In December 2004, Toshiba quietly announced it would discontinue manufacturing traditional in-house cathode-ray tube (CRT) televisions. In 2005, Matsushita Toshiba Picture Display Co. Ltd. (a joint venture between Panasonic and Toshiba created in 2002 ) stopped production of CRTs at its factory in Horseheads, New York. A year later, in 2006, it stopped production at its Malaysian factory, following heavy losses. In 2006, Toshiba terminated sales of CRT TVs in Japan and production of in-house plasma TVs. To ensure its future competitiveness in

200-849: A full line of SDTV and HDTV TV cameras. Many of the model numbers of Ikegami portable television cameras begin with the initial letters "HL" , which stand for "Handy-Looky" , an original translation from the Japanese. Toshiba Toshiba Corporation ( 株式会社東芝 , Kabushikigaisha Tōshiba , English: / t ə ˈ ʃ iː b ə , t ɒ -, t oʊ -/ ) is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo . Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, elevators and escalators, electronic components, semiconductors , hard disk drives , printers, batteries, lighting, as well as IT solutions such as quantum cryptography . It

250-440: A long history and sprawling businesses, Toshiba is a household name in Japan and has long been viewed as a symbol of the country's technological prowess post- World War II . As a semiconductor company and the inventor of flash memory , Toshiba had been one of the top 10 in the chip industry until its flash memory unit was spun off as Kioxia in the late 2010s. The company was also relevant in consumer personal computers, releasing

300-799: A separate business, to save Toshiba from bankruptcy. In February 2017, Toshiba revealed unaudited details of a 390 billion yen ($ 3.4 billion) corporate wide loss, mainly arising from its majority owned US based Westinghouse nuclear construction subsidiary which was written down by 712 billion yen ($ 6.3 billion). On 14 February 2017, Toshiba delayed filing financial results, and chairman Shigenori Shiga, formerly chairman of Westinghouse, resigned. Construction delays, regulatory changes and cost overruns at Westinghouse-built nuclear facilities Vogtle units 3 and 4 in Waynesboro, Georgia and VC Summer units 2 and 3 in South Carolina, were cited as

350-640: A subsidiary of Toshiba and the Norwegian company Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk . The incident strained relations between the United States and Japan , and resulted in the arrest and prosecution of two senior executives, as well as the imposition of sanctions on the company by both countries. Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania said "What Toshiba and Kongsberg did was ransom the security of the United States for $ 517 million." In 2001, Toshiba signed

400-718: A tapeless video acquisition format called Editcam , but few were sold. Ikegami developed a tapeless camera format is called GFCAM Toshiba . In the early 1980s, Ikegami developed arcade video games as a subcontractor to Japanese video game companies. Among the games they developed are Computer Othello , Block Fever , Monkey Magic , Congo Bongo , Popeye , Donkey Kong , Radar Scope , Sheriff , Space Fever , Space Firebird , Space Demon , Heli Fire , Sky Skipper , Space Launcher , and Zaxxon . At that time, computer programs were not recognized as copyrightable material. According to these sources, Ikegami proceeded to sue Nintendo for unauthorized duplication of

450-401: A vice president, and provided the technology for bulb-making. Production equipment was bought from GE and Tokyo Denki soon started selling its products with GE's trademark. Toshiba was founded in 1939 by the merger of Shibaura Seisakusho and Tokyo Denki. The merger of Shibaura and Tokyo Denki created a new company called Tokyo Shibaura Denki (Tokyo Shibaura Electric) ( 東 京 芝 浦 電気 ). It

500-577: A year. Earlier in April, the company filed twice-delayed business results without an endorsement from auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). On 20 September 2017, Toshiba's board approved a deal to sell its memory chip business to a group led by Bain Capital for US$ 18 billion, with financial backing by companies such as Apple , Dell Technologies , Hoya Corporation , Kingston Technology , Seagate Technology , and SK Hynix . The newly independent company

550-546: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ikegami Tsushinki Ikegami introduced the first portable 4 1/2-inch Image Orthicon tube hand-held TV camera. The camera made its debut in the United States in February 1962, when CBS used it to document the launching of NASA's Friendship 7 , its first crewed space mission to orbit the Earth. In 1972, Ikegami introduced

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600-608: The Financial Times reported on 23 January 2006 that Toshiba had won the bid, it valued the company's offer at $ 5 billion (£2.8 billion). The sale of Westinghouse by the Government of the United Kingdom surprised many industry experts, who questioned the wisdom of selling one of the world's largest producers of nuclear reactors shortly before the market for nuclear power was expected to grow substantially; China ,

650-616: The Donkey Kong program code for the latter's creation of Donkey Kong Junior (1983, Tokyo District Court), but it was not until 1989 that the Tokyo High Court gave a verdict that acknowledged the originality of program code. In 1990, Ikegami and Nintendo reached a settlement, terms of which were never disclosed. Some Ikegami Models included the ITC (Industrial Television Camera)-730, HL-79 HL-55, HL-V55 and HL-99. Ikegami makes

700-466: The United States and the United Kingdom were all expected to invest heavily in nuclear power. The acquisition of Westinghouse for $ 5.4 billion was completed on 17 October 2006, with Toshiba obtaining a 77 percent share, and partners The Shaw Group a 20 percent share and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. a 3 percent share. In late 2007, Toshiba took over from Discover Card as

750-672: The Brazilian company Semp (Sociedade Eletromercantil Paulista), subsequently forming Semp Toshiba through the combination of the two companies' South American operations. In 1987, Toshiba Machine, a subsidiary of Toshiba, was accused of illegally selling CNC milling machines used to produce very quiet submarine propellers to the Soviet Union in violation of the CoCom agreement, an international embargo on certain countries to COMECON countries. The Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal involved

800-541: The HL-33, the first compact hand-held color video camera for electronic news gathering (ENG). The compact ENG cameras made live shots easier and—when combined with portable videotape recorders—provided an immediate alternative to 16mm television news film, which required processing before it could be broadcast. In addition to ENG, these cameras saw some use in outside broadcasts in Britain, particularly for roaming footage that

850-469: The Navy started to use competitive bids and then build its own works, the demand decreased substantially and the company started to lose money. The main creditor to the company, Mitsui Bank, took over the insolvent company in 1893 and renamed it Shibaura Seisakusho (Shibaura Engineering Works). Shibaura Seisakusho ( 芝浦製作所 , Shibaura Engineering Works) was the new name given to Tanaka Seisakusho after it

900-674: The Social Infrastructure Group in India as Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems (India) Private Limited. In January 2014, Toshiba completed its acquisition of OCZ Storage Solutions . OCZ Technology stock was halted on 27 November 2013. OCZ then stated they expected to file a petition for bankruptcy and that Toshiba Corporation had expressed interest in purchasing its assets in a bankruptcy proceeding. On 2 December 2013, OCZ announced Toshiba had agreed to purchase nearly all of OCZ's assets for $ 35 million. The deal

950-548: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toshiba first announced the recall in January and said it was recalling the batteries in certain Toshiba Notebook computers sold since June 2011. In May 2016, it was announced that Satoshi Tsunakawa, the former head of Toshiba's medical equipment division, was named CEO. This appointment came after the accounting scandal that occurred. In September 2016, Toshiba announced

1000-467: The U.S., or by Vestel and other manufacturers for the European market. In September 2015, Toshiba shares fell to their lowest point in two and a half years. The firm said in a statement that its net losses for the quarterly period were 12.3 billion yen ($ 102m; £66m). The company noted poor performances in its televisions, home appliances and personal computer businesses. In October 2015, Toshiba sold

1050-555: The company's century-long presence in consumer markets. After a rejection to split the company, in 2023 Toshiba was purchased by a consortium led by Japan Industrial Partners (JIP); Toshiba turned private as a result and was delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange after 74 years, where it was formerly a constituent of the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX 100 indices. Tanaka Seisakusho ( 田中製作所 , Tanaka Engineering Works)

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1100-418: The company's indebtedness to more than 1 trillion yen (about $ 8.3 billion). In January 2016, Toshiba's security division unveiled a new bundle of services for schools that use its surveillance equipment. The program, which is intended for both K-12 and higher education, includes education discounts, alerts, and post-warranty support, among other features, on its IP-based security gear. In March 2016, Toshiba

1150-507: The first mass-market laptop in 1985 and later ranking as a major vendor of laptops; it exited the PC business in 2020 having divested it into Dynabook Inc. Toshiba faced trouble during the 2010s amid a much-publicised accounting scandal that affected its reputation, and the bankruptcy of its subsidiary nuclear energy company Westinghouse in 2017. This forced the conglomerate to shed a number of underperforming businesses, essentially eliminating

1200-668: The first wireless power receiver IC using the Qi 1.2.2 specification, developed in association with the Wireless Power Consortium . In December 2016, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation was acquired by Canon . A Chinese electrical appliance corporation Midea Group bought a controlling 80.1% stake in the Toshiba Home Appliances Group. In late December 2016, the management of Toshiba requested an "urgent press briefing" to announce that

1250-504: The flat-panel digital television and display market, Toshiba has made a considerable investment in a new kind of display technology called SED . This technology, however, was never sold to the public, as it was not price-competitive with LCDs. Toshiba sold its share in SED Inc. to Canon after Nano-Proprietary, which owns several patents related to SED technology, claimed SED Inc. was not a subsidiary of Canon. Before World War II , Toshiba

1300-492: The founder of the present Oki Denki ( Oki Electric Industry ); and Ishiguro Keizaburō , a co-founder of the present Anritsu . After the demise of the founder in 1881, Tanaka Seisakusho became partly owned by General Electric and expanded into the production of torpedoes and mines at the request of the Imperial Japanese Navy , to become one of the largest manufacturing companies of the time. However, as

1350-462: The image sensor business to Sony . In December 2015, Muromachi said the episode had wiped about $ 8 billion off Toshiba's market value. He forecast a record 550 billion yen (about US$ 4.6 billion) annual loss and warned the company would have to overhaul its TV and computer businesses. Toshiba would not be raising funds for two years, he said. The next week, a company spokesperson announced Toshiba would seek 300 billion yen ($ 2.5 billion) in 2016, taking

1400-642: The imports and the quality was poorer. The company managed to survive with the booms after the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, but afterward its financial position was precarious. In 1905, the company was renamed Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric) and entered into a financial and technological collaboration with General Electric of the US. General Electric acquired 51 percent share of ownership, sent

1450-462: The keiretsu or allied keiretsu. This loyalty can extend as far as the beer the employees consume, which in Toshiba's case is Asahi . In July 2005, BNFL confirmed it planned to sell Westinghouse Electric Company , then estimated to be worth $ 1.8 billion (£1 billion). The bid attracted interest from several companies including Toshiba, General Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and when

1500-411: The main causes of the dramatic fall in Toshiba's financial performance and collapse in the share price. Fixed priced construction contracts negotiated by Westinghouse with Georgia Power left Toshiba with uncharted liabilities that resulted in the sale of key Toshiba operating subsidiaries to secure the company's future. Westinghouse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 29 March 2017. Toshiba

1550-485: The newly-found losses in the Westinghouse subsidiary from Vogtle Electric Generating Plant nuclear plant construction would lead to a write-down of several billion dollars, bankrupting Westinghouse and threatening to bankrupt Toshiba. The exact amount of the liabilities was unavailable. In January 2017, a person with direct knowledge of the matter reported that the company plans on making its memory chip division

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1600-410: The present Toshiba company. Several people who worked at Tanaka Seisakusho or who received Tanaka's guidance at a Kubusho (Ministry of Industries) factory later became pioneers themselves. These included Miyoshi Shōichi  [ jp ] who helped Fujioka Ichisuke  [ jp ] make the first power generator in Japan and to establish a company, Hakunetsusha to make bulbs; Oki Kibatarō ,

1650-497: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ikegami . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ikegami&oldid=1013773417 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Japanese-language surnames Hidden categories: Short description

1700-544: The shares of the Swiss-based advanced-power-meter maker Landis+Gyr for $ 2.3 billion. In 2010 the company released a series of television models including the WL768, YL863, VL963 designed in collaboration with Danish designer Timothy Jacob Jensen . In April 2012, Toshiba agreed to acquire IBM 's point-of-sale business for $ 850 million, making it the world's largest vendor of point-of-sale systems. In July 2012, Toshiba

1750-619: The sponsor of the top-most screen of One Times Square in New York City . It displays the iconic 60-second New Year's countdown on its screen, as well as messages, greetings, and advertisements for the company. The sponsor of the New Year's countdown was taken over by Capital One on 31 December 2018. In January 2009, Toshiba acquired the HDD business of Fujitsu . Toshiba announced on 16 May 2011, that it had agreed to acquire all of

1800-477: The two previous CEOs. Chairman Masashi Muromachi was appointed acting CEO. Following the scandal, Toshiba Corp. was removed from a stock index showcasing Japan's best companies. That was the second reshuffle of the index, which picks companies with the best operating income, return on equity and market value. Toshiba announced in early 2015 that they would stop making televisions in its own factories. From 2015 onward, Toshiba televisions will be made by Compal for

1850-634: Was a company established by Miyoshi Shōichi and Fujioka Ichisuke , two of Japan's industrial pioneers during the Tokugawa / Edo period . It specialized in the manufacturing of lightbulbs. The company was established in 1890 and started out by selling bulbs using bamboo filaments. However, following the opening up of trade with the West through the Unequal treaty , Hakunetsusha met with fierce competition from imports. Its bulb cost about 60 percent more than

1900-535: Was a member of the Mitsui Group zaibatsu ( family-controlled vertical monopoly ). Today Toshiba is a member of the Mitsui keiretsu (a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings), and still has preferential arrangements with Mitsui Bank and the other members of the keiretsu. Membership in a keiretsu has traditionally meant loyalty, both corporate and private, to other members of

1950-440: Was accused of fixing the prices of LCD panels in the United States at a high level. While such claims were denied by Toshiba, they agreed to settle alongside several other manufacturers for a total of $ 571 million. In December 2013, Toshiba completed its acquisition of Vijai Electricals Limited plant at Hyderabad and set up its own base for manufacturing of transmission and distribution products (transformers and switchgears) under

2000-459: Was completed on 21 January 2014 when the assets of OCZ Technology Group became a new independently operated subsidiary of Toshiba named OCZ Storage Solutions. OCZ Technology Group then changed its name to ZCO Liquidating Corporation; on 18 August 2014, ZCO Liquidating Corporation and its subsidiaries were liquidated. OCZ Storage Solutions was dissolved on 1 April 2016 and absorbed into Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., with OCZ becoming

2050-460: Was declared insolvent in 1893 and taken over by Mitsui Bank. In 1910, it formed a tie-up with General Electric (GE), which, in exchange for technology, acquired about a quarter of the shares of Shibaura. The relation with GE continued until the beginning of World War II and resumed in 1953 with GE's 24 percent shareholding in the successor company, Tokyo Shibaura Denki. This percentage decreased substantially since then. Hakunetsusha ( 白熱舎 )

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2100-423: Was estimated to have 9 billion dollar annual net loss. On 11 April 2017, Toshiba filed unaudited quarterly results. Auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers had not signed of the accounts because of uncertainties at Westinghouse. Toshiba stated that "substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern exists". On 25 April 2017, Toshiba announced its decision to replace its auditor after less than

2150-440: Was formerly also one of the biggest manufacturers of personal computers , consumer electronics , home appliances , and medical equipment . The Toshiba name is derived from its former name, Tokyo Shibaura Denki K.K. which in turn was a 1939 merger between Shibaura Seisaku-sho (founded in 1875) and Tokyo Denki (founded in 1890). The company name was officially changed to Toshiba Corporation in 1978. A technology company with

2200-416: Was investigating an accounting scandal and it might have to revise its profits for the previous three years. On 21 July 2015, CEO Hisao Tanaka announced his resignation amid an accounting scandal that he called "the most damaging event for our brand in the company's 140-year history". Profits had been inflated by $ 1.2 billion over the previous seven years. Eight other senior officials also resigned, including

2250-464: Was named Toshiba Memory Corporation , and then renamed Kioxia . On 15 November 2017, Hisense reached a deal to acquire 95% of Toshiba Visual Solutions ( television sets ) for US$ 113.6 million. Later that month, the company announced that it would pull out of its long-standing sponsorships of the Japanese television programs Sazae-san , Nichiyō Gekijo , and the video screens topping out One Times Square in New York City . The company cited that

2300-472: Was not possible to capture using the much larger tradition OB cameras. The later HL-51 was popular among broadcasters for both ENG and EFP image acquisition. Although Ikegami is known as a manufacturer of high-quality television cameras, the company does not make video recorder mechanisms ( VTRs ), and was a licensee of professional video formats such as Sony 's Betacam SP and DVCAM , and Panasonic 's DVCPRO . In 1995, Ikegami co-operated with Avid on

2350-450: Was preparing to start construction on a cutting-edge new semiconductor plant in Japan that would mass-produce chips based on the ultra-dense flash variant. Toshiba expected to spend approximately 360 billion yen, or $ 3.2 billion, on the project through May 2019. In April 2016, Toshiba recalled 100,000 faulty laptop lithium-ion batteries, which were made by Panasonic , that can overheat, posing burn and fire hazards to consumers, according to

2400-604: Was sold in 1961 by Toshiba in Japan. Toshiba is responsible for a number of Japanese firsts, including radar (1912) , the TAC digital computer (1954), transistor television, color CRTs and microwave oven (1959), color video phone (1971), Japanese word processor (1978), MRI system (1982), personal computer Pasopia (1981), laptop personal computer (1986), NAND EEPROM (1991), DVD (1995), the Libretto sub-notebook personal computer (1996) and HD DVD (2005). In 1977, Toshiba acquired

2450-773: Was soon nicknamed Toshiba, but it was not until 1978 that the company was officially renamed Toshiba Corporation. The company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in May 1949. The group expanded rapidly, driven by a combination of organic growth and by acquisitions, buying heavy engineering, and primary industry firms in the 1940s and 1950s. Groups created include Toshiba Music Industries/Toshiba EMI (1960), Toshiba International Corporation (the 1970s), Toshiba Electrical Equipment (1974), Toshiba Chemical (1974), Toshiba Lighting and Technology (1989), Toshiba America Information Systems (1989) and Toshiba Carrier Corporation (1999). The first mini-split ductless air conditioner

2500-435: Was the first company established by Tanaka Hisashige (1799–1881), one of the most original and productive inventor-engineers during the Tokugawa / Edo period . Established on 11 July 1875, it was the first Japanese company to manufacture telegraph equipment. It also manufactured switches, and miscellaneous electrical and communications equipment. The company was inherited by Tanaka's adopted son, and later became half of

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